Agenda and Documents

Entire Agenda

The meeting will be held as a in-person meeting from 22 to 26 September 2025. The times are given in Copenhagen Time (EDT, UTC +2).

Daily agendas including links to documents (papers and presentations)

Monday, September 22nd

Meetings
Time (EDT, UTC‑4)	Item
08:30-09:00	Registration — refreshments
09:00-09:30	Welcoming Remarks — Statistics Denmark
09:30-10:30	Opening Remarks & Meeting Agenda Overview — Voorburg Group co-chairs: Marcus Fridén (Sweden) / Mathieu Thomassin (Canada) Participant introductions — All
10:30-11:00	Network Break
11:00-12:00	Session: Updated Sector Paper TBD Session: Industry Paper ISIC 78 Employment Activities (NAICS 5613) — Ariel Juarez (Mexico)
12:00-13:00	Lunch break
13:00-14:00	Session: Cross cutting topic (part 1) Guidelines document on approximations of deflators when SPPIs are not available Session leader — Dorothee Blang (Germany) TBD (UK), TBD (Israel)
14:00-14:30	Session: Industry Paper Price indexes for Post Secondary Education — Melanie Santiago (US BLS)
14:30-15:00	Network break
15:00-15:30	Session: Cross cutting topic (part 2) Measuring outsourcing of services — Agnieszka Matulska-Bachura (Poland)
15:30-16:00	Session: Cross cutting topic (part 3) A new index in the area of Commerce — Angela Hernandez Santacoloma (Switzerland)

Tuesday, September 23rd

Meetings
Time (EDT, UTC‑4)	Item
09:00-10:30	Session: Industry Paper ISIC 829 Business Support Service Activities Not Elsewhere Classified Session leader — Christian Puchter (Austria) Output: Mariah Nilsson (Sweden), Josipa Kalčić Ivanić (Croatia), TBD SPPI: Christian Stock (Austria), Agnieszka Matulska-Bachura (Poland), TBD Discussant: TBD
10:30-11:00	Network break
11:00-11:30	Session: Cross cutting topic (part 4) Estimating age-related depreciation in office rents — Mr. Kimiaki Shinozaki (Bank of Japan)
11:30-12:00	Session: Cross cutting topic (part 5) How does the new 2025 SNA impact the Service industries? — Peter van de Ven (OECD)
12:00-13:00	Lunch break
13:00-14:00	Session: Cross cutting topic (part 6) TBD Implementing a data driven model for automated dynamic outlier detection during data validation — Melanie Santiago (US BLS)
14:00-14:30	Session: Cross cutting topic (part 7) Producing PPIs using Reproducible Analytical Pipelines — Xin Ha (Canada)
14:30-15:00	Network break
15:00-16:00	Session: Cross cutting topic (part 8) How admin data are used to derive the output measurement for short term accommodation — Mathieu Thomassin (Canada), Maja Dozet (Croatia)
16:00-16:30	Session: Cross cutting topic (part 9) Development of Final Demand-Intermediate Demand Price Indices — Xin Ha (Canada)

Wednesday, September 24th

Meetings
Time (EDT, UTC‑4)	Item
09:00-9:30	Group discussion: Feedback on newsletter and communication between meetings
9:30-10:00	Host Presentation TBD (Denmark)
10:00-10:30	Network break
10:30-11:45	Host Presentation TBD (Denmark)
11:45-	Lunch and country day

Thursday, September 25th

Meetings
Time (EDT, UTC‑4)	Item
08:30-9:30	Bureau meeting — VG Bureau members only
9:30-10:00	Session: Cross cutting topic (part 10) Deflating annual output data in SBS — Mariah Nilsson (Sweden)
10:00-10:30	Session: Cross cutting topic (part 11) Introducing administrative data within the survey on turnover in services — Mariagrazia Moschetta (Italy)
10:30-11:00	Network break
11:00-11:30	Session: Industry Paper Use of non-public data sources for compiling SPPI for ISIC 491 Passenger rail transport and 493 Other passenger land transport — Agnieszka Matulska-Bachura (Poland)
11:30-12:00	Session: Updated Sector Paper ISIC 62 Computer Programming — TBD (Israel), Dorothee Blang (Germany), TBD (USBLS, on classifications)
12:00-13:00	Lunch Break
13:00-14:30	Poster Session: Cross-cutting topic (part 12) Changes in the Service industries in upcoming classification revisions, ISIC, NACE, CPC, ATECO, COICOP etc. — TBD (Italy), TBD, TBD
14:30-15:00	Network break
15:00-15:30	Session: Cross-cutting topic (part 13) Upcoming PPI manual revision — TBD (Inter-secretariat Working Group on Price Statistics)
15:30-16:00	Session: Cross-cutting topic (part 14) Prototype chatbot — Yap Wei Ni/Justin Tai (Singapore)
16:00-17:00	Bureau Meeting — VG Bureau members only

Friday, September 26th

Meetings
Time (EDT, UTC‑4)	Item
9:00-10:15	Session: 2026 meeting plan Voorburg Group co-chairs: Marcus Fridén (Sweden) / Mathieu Thomassin (Canada) VG Governance and Bureau Representation Future Agenda Assignment of Sector Papers Designation of Industries and Assignments for VG 2026 Designation of Papers on Cross-cutting topics for VG 2026
10:15-10:45	Network break
10:45-12:00	Conclude VG 2026 meeting plan Designation of Assignments for VG 2026 Meeting Arrangements for Next Year Closing Remarks

In general, presenters have 20 minutes for their presentations and a period of 5 minutes is allowed for questions and discussion at the end of their presentation.
Presenters are asked to send by e-mail a copy of their slides to Voorburg2025@dst.dk by September 14, 2025.
We strongly recommend that you submit a Microsoft PowerPoint version of your presentation. If planning to use any other software, please check with us first. We also ask that you avoid any PowerPoint animation. Please use at least 18-point font that can easily be read and that is part of the standard Microsoft suite of fonts. In order to fully fill the screen, please use the PowerPoint 16:9 format for your presentation.

Please send your manuscript to Voorburg2025@dst.dk before September 07, 2025.
We strongly encourage you to use Microsoft Word for your manuscript. If planning to use any other software, please check with us first.
A Style Guide for Manuscripts is available here.

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